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Lawsuits: Macerata. Cronache Maceratesi wins another battle

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The Court rejected a request for € 400,000 in damages for alleged defamation. It is the twentieth victory in twelve years, recalls the editorial staff.

He offended the memory of the gang boss: initial verdict overturned

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On the 13th January 2020 the Palermo Court of Appeal found the journalist Rino Giacalone guilty of the crime of libel and sentenced him to pay a fine of 600 euro plus damages and court costs to civil parties, for an amount of about seven thousand euro.

Five years of Legal Aid: 26 aided for free, 8 gratuities and 10 victories

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This is the balance sheet of the first five years of the Free Legal Aid office of Ossigeno coordinated by the barrister Andrea Di Pietro.

False accusations on Facebook: sentenced for libel

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Sued by the journalist Mimmo Carrieri, the author of the Facebook post was initially acquitted in court and, six years after the event, sentenced in the Court of Appeal.

8 years in first instance to a journalist

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The case of Gabriele Carchidi, subjected to 179 penal trials (35 hearings in the last month) for libel and the draft bill to abolish imprisonment

Italy. Libel. 9000 criminal complaints & 64 prison sentences each year

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Oxygen’s comments on the ISTAT figures of Italian penal libel proceedings against journalists. The complaints doubled in 5 years

In Sicily every year there are 10 years of prison sentences for defamation

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Data on the outcome of trials in the courts of Sicily presented…

Libel. € 95 thousand in damages from “Il Fatto Quotidiano” to Tiziano Renzi

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The court sentence for defamation for three articles. The alarm of the editor Travaglio: this puts the life of the newspaper at risk 

Lawsuit: Corrado Formigli and Rai will not pay 5 million to Fiat

The final Court of Appeal has definitively established this, rejecting the appeal of the car company (ordered to pay the legal expenses) against the journalist being found innocent.

Vicenza. Roi Foundation renounces to request of one million for compensation

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The new president signed a transaction with the VicenzaPiù newspaper. In 2016 the former president of the Foundation, Giovanni Zonin, had mentioned the chied editor Giovanni Coviello